Application of PR techniques to mail sorting in China

Li Liu, Shujing Lu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen

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Abstract

Mail sorting machines play an important role in postal automation. In this paper, we give a brief overview of mail sorting machines in China Post from a pattern recognition point of view. OCR techniques such as postcode recognition and address recognition are essential for mail sorting machines, which are considered as class imbalance problems in our study. In addition to OCR that mainly focuses on the characters in the image, some image-level features are exploited for near-duplicate envelope image matching, which is helpful in tracking pieces of mail in the network environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 International C Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, C3S2E 2014
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages88-94
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781450327121
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 7th International C Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, C3S2E 2014 - Montreal, QC, Canada
Duration: 4 Apr 20146 Apr 2014

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference2014 7th International C Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, C3S2E 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal, QC
Period4/04/146/04/14

Keywords

  • Mail sorting machine
  • address recognition
  • near-duplicate image matching
  • pattern recognition technique
  • postcode recognition

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